Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a manner not to be answered; beyond refutation.

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  • adverb In an unanswerable manner; beyond refutation.

Etymologies

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unanswerable +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • As an English cricket fan it has seemed necessary to ask this question during the three seasons of the IPL, partly because of scheduling that pits the two together, and partly because of the nature of the IPL itself, an intrusive sporting product that has from the outset advertised itself as crushingly tooled-up and unanswerably monetised.

    IPL4 is the ideal accompaniment to the parochial intrigue of ECC112 | Barney Ronay 2011

  • WHEREFORE, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows, that whatever FORM thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.

    Mugged By Reality: The Misgovernment of San Francisco | RedState 2010

  • The free market is a necessary part of any stable community, and the arguments for maintaining it as the core of economic life were unanswerably set out by Ludwig von Mises.

    Are You Big Enough to Tolerate Polygamy?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • I have not, in this affair, at all spared her; I made her hear from Mortimer himself the little story as it happened; I then carried her to the cottage, where we had the whole matter confirmed; and I afterwards insisted upon being told myself by her maid all she had related to her lady, that she might thus be unanswerably convicted of inventing whatever she omitted.

    Cecilia 2008

  • The figures spoke to me unanswerably: I had to sell the boat.

    Aweigh 2004

  • The figures spoke to me unanswerably: I had to sell the boat.

    Aweigh 2004

  • Such philanthropy, as Dean Inge has so unanswerably pointed out, is kind only to be cruel, and unwittingly promotes precisely the results most deprecated.

    “The true legacy of Margaret Sanger”-Ms. 2005

  • “Have you any reason to give for going out of your way to adopt such a mystical view as this, when an unanswerably rational explanation of the dream lies straight before you?”

    Armadale 2003

  • The result exposed his own ignorance unanswerably before his own eyes.

    Armadale 2003

  • You are already as well acquainted with those proceedings as I am; and you will understand how unanswerably this part of his report fixed the guilt of being concerned in the disappearance of the Moonstone on the memory of the poor dead girl.

    The Moonstone 2003

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